Due to its established reach in U.S. homes, these reports indicated that Fox was planning on converting Speed into this new channel, reducing its NASCAR coverage, and transferring motorsports programming to Fuel TV, which is expected to become Fox Sports 2.

Further supporting this theory, reports surfaced in early 2013 that Fox Soccer would be relaunched as FXX, an FX offshoot with a focus on comedy, meaning that soccer programming would be forced to move to Fox Sports 1 or Fox Sports 2.

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